Sprint would like you to know that, while LTE coverage has not yet been activated in these areas just yet, the Now Network has plans to rollout the shiny new towers to cities like San Francisco and Napa, CA, Naples and Cape Coral, FL, and several markets in midwest and southern states. The network is not live yet, of course. As with the carrier's previous announcement, this is simply to let people know what's coming.

Here's the full list of cities that have been added to the plan:

San Francisco, CA, San Mateo-Redwood City, CA

Cape Coral-Ft Meyers, FL

Dyersburg-Union City-Martin, TN

Emporia, KS

Fort Wayne, IN

Greenwood, MS

Joplin, MO

Kokomo, IN

Lafayette/West Lafayette, IN

Lexington Park, MD

Marion, IN

Napa, CA

Naples-Marco Island, FL

Ottawa-Streator, IL

Punta Gorda, FL

Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA

Sarasota-Bradenton, FL

Sebring, FL

South Bend-Mishawaka, IN

Terre Haute, IN

Vallejo-Fairfield, CA

Warsaw, IN

According to Sprint, before the official launch of these networks, you may see LTE coverage pop up and, in that case, you "are welcome to use the network" (as opposed to politely declining the coverage you paid for?) but there's no word yet on when the official launch in these cities will occur.

It's worth pointing out that, if you're in one of these cities and notice scattered coverage prior to an official launch, it's possible that your phone's constant attempts to reconnect to sparse LTE towers might drain your battery. So, I guess that's one reason you might politely decline the coverage.

Comments

i was going to say the same thing. Everyone is lives in those markets don't get overjoyed just yet. Chicago coverage is a complete joke. I drive 45 minutes to work and I get LTE for about 8 seconds on the trip and that's it.

Needless to say, I am one of those people "politely declining" the LTE because when my EVO LTE is on CDMA LTE its horse shit (excuse my french) It will never keep a signal to save its life. I just force it to CDMA only and deal with the half ass 3G.

I love Sprint but their service coverage is a complete joke. okay I am done ranting now

DCMAKER

you wouldn't be ~24 would you? If so i might know you :P

DavidKeith

I'm 23, do i know you?

DCMAKER

what town did you go to high school?

DavidKeith

@7806d06e05d65025c35575936299ac89:disqus West Chicago

DCMAKER

hahahhaha yep and your dad worked for the school huh....lol

DavidKeith

@7806d06e05d65025c35575936299ac89:disqus WOW........ it is a small world lol
Were you in my class?

can everyone else see these comments? lol

DCMAKER

yea :P i was and every can read it. I was the guy that enjoyed long bike rides to school in the winter :P

DavidKeith

@7806d06e05d65025c35575936299ac89:disqus ahaha I know exactly who you are! whats going on man, long time

DCMAKER

not a whole lot moved back home and going to college. Lived in CA/NC for several years. Looking for a job doing some techy research stuff for fun and a married :P

The worst part is in side by side tests I have found there are plenty of areas that have comparable network speeds, but Sprint's attenuation is usually 10x that of Verizon rendering the same speed useless. It was astounding to see how a high ping time can render a decent speed completely useless. The pages would just timeout on the Sprint device when Verizon could load (although very slowly).

John O’Connor

It's coming. there should be quite a few san diego towers popping up this month and full buildout around june 2013

chardd

Has Sprint announced this anywhere? As far as I know, the only 4g tower they currently have here is at SDSU, and I can't even connect to it because the signal is so weak. I can't imagine they'd be putting many more in here.

RRockstar

It's not coming any time soon. While they are upgrading sites under their network vision program, the vendor that they chose is the worst. This vendor wont turn on the LTE for months after the sites are completed. San Diego will be waiting an additional 3 months after installation for the switches to be flipped on! Good luck if we get spotty coverage by Spring 2013.

chardd

I've switched to T-Mobile and I'm very satisfied. I've had great service so far and my download speeds are 15 to 20 times higher than Sprint.

My understanding is that Sprint will only deploy LTE (for now) in the highest volume traffic areas based on current 4G WiMAX usage. Then it will roll it out to other sites and fill in the gaps. If you live in SF like I do, you basically only get WiMAX in a handful of areas in downtown, only outside and only for a block at a time. Hardly what I would call high traffic areas to signify to Sprint the need to deploy LTE at all. So don't expect much until LTE-Advanced starts deploying on 800ESMR, of course by then your current LTE and all Sprint phones on the market today won't be able to take advantage of it anyway

Jayrox

Still nothing for Cincinnati

Jayrox

Still nothing for Cincinnati

Fifth313ment

Why does Sprint keep announcing, "Coming Soon, LTE here!" They are the only carrier to just announce updates but almost never have any? You never see ATT or Verizon announcing coverage updates!? They either have new cities to add or they don't. Sprint stop fake hawking your nonexistent network!

Toshistation

I already posted this on an earlier thread, but it seems more apropos here:

Welcome Sprint customers to the club. Not the LTE club, but the club of people who have to wait seemingly forever as a slow rollout of marginal LTE coverage comes to cities that aren't yours. As an AT&T user, I can tell you, you'll eventually run out of jokes to make about your carrier's lofty promises and abysmal delivery. Our brotherhood of disappointed cellular customers will be here to help you through these tough times. While things might look glum now, don't feel too bad; T-Mobile subscribers will be coming along soon enough and you'll have plenty of time to haze them.

KingRando

WHY is there so much focus in Indiana??? Seriously, it's 80% farm land. What the hell